Sylvania to Sylvania Township
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Sylvania ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Sylvania Township, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.5%
Sylvania, residents
Credit back
$900
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxSylvania credits only part of what Sylvania Township takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Sylvania bar is the credit it hands back. Municipal income tax only — state, federal and payroll tax apply on top, and an Ohio school district income tax may too.
What this commute actually costs
- Here is the good news. Working in Sylvania Township costs you nothing extra in local tax. Sylvania charges residents about 1.5%, and it credits back every dollar Sylvania Township collects from you. Either way your bill is $900 a year. What changes is which city keeps the money, not how much of it you hand over.
- This one is balanced on a knife edge. What Sylvania Township takes is exactly what Sylvania is willing to credit — no more. It costs you nothing today. It would cost you from the very first dollar if either city moved its rate.
- Sylvania Township draws workers from 3 places in this data, and Sylvania is 2 of them by size, with about 830 people. It is a short list. Smaller routes into the city exist below the counting threshold.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Sylvania Township withholds about 1.5% on income earned there, and Sylvania, which levies about 1.5% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $900 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Sylvania Township and Sylvania, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- This pairing sits exactly on its limit. Sylvania Township's rate and the ceiling Sylvania places on its credit coincide to the cent, so the credit absorbs the work-city tax precisely and not a dollar further. The commute is costless today and has no margin whatsoever: any increase by Sylvania Township, or any reduction in the ceiling by Sylvania, falls directly on the worker from the first dollar.
- Sylvania Township records 3 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Sylvania ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 830. A workplace of this size draws from a small enough set of origins that the comparison is indicative rather than statistical, and the published floor excludes an unknown tail of smaller flows.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$1,346
- Yours$60,246
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax1.79% | $1,346 |
| Yours80.33% | $60,246 |
The arithmetic, step by step
| Sylvania Township takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Sylvania charges residents | $900 |
| Less the credit Sylvania gives back | $900 |
| Total local tax | $900 |
| If you also lived in Sylvania Township | $900 |
| Difference | $0 |
On a reference salary of $60,000 a year. Both rates and the credit ceiling are shares of income, so every figure scales with your own pay.
What this page does not cover
- Do not add the two rates up, and do not assume the bigger one simply wins. Neither is how Ohio works. Both Sylvania Township and Sylvania charge you. Sylvania may then hand back what Sylvania Township took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Sylvania decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Sylvania Township. It is worth confirming the current position with the city or its collection agency, because this is the part most likely to have changed.
- Watch for one more local tax. School district income tax is separate from what Sylvania and Sylvania Township charge, and plenty of Ohio districts levy it. Working elsewhere makes no difference to it, and no credit offsets it.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Sylvania and Sylvania Township take sits on top of state, federal and payroll tax. Those three are the same wherever in Ohio you work, so putting them in would bury the difference this page is about.
- The dollar figures rest on one assumed salary, sixty thousand. Double your pay and they double. Halve it and they halve. What stays put is the relationship between what Sylvania Township charges and what Sylvania gives back, which is the part worth carrying away.
- Two misreadings bracket the correct answer and both are common. Ohio does not simply add the two rates together, which would overstate the charge; nor does it apply only the higher of them, which is Pennsylvania's rule and would understate it wherever the credit is partial. Sylvania Township taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Sylvania taxes its residents on everything, and Sylvania then credits some, all or none of what Sylvania Township collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Sylvania rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Sylvania's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Sylvania alone. Ohio's uniform framework governs definitions, filing and withholding; it does not compel any municipality to credit tax paid to another. A council vote in Sylvania can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Sylvania Township or in state law, which is a materially different exposure from a rate set by statute.
- Ohio school district income tax is a separate levy from municipal income tax and is excluded from these figures. It is imposed by school district of residence rather than by municipality, it is unaffected by employment in Sylvania Township, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Sylvania whose school district levies one owes it in addition to everything shown here, which is why the totals on this page are a municipal position rather than a complete local one.
- Only municipal income tax is modeled. Ohio's state income tax, federal income tax and payroll taxes all apply in addition and are invariant to the boundary between Sylvania and Sylvania Township, which is precisely why they are excluded: isolating the layer that responds to the commute is the point of the comparison. A complete tax position requires adding them; a comparison of the two locations does not.
- Dollar figures are computed against a stated reference salary of sixty thousand rather than a municipal wage average, which no published source provides for Ohio municipalities. Both rates and the credit ceiling are proportional to income, so every figure scales linearly: the Sylvania to Sylvania Township differential doubles at twice the salary and halves at half of it, and the rate relationship holds at every level. The one caveat is that whether the ceiling binds at all is itself scale-invariant here, because it too is expressed as a share of income rather than as a fixed dollar cap.
Questions people ask
Do I pay local tax twice — once where I work and once where I live?
Both places charge you, but the city you live in gives back some of what the other one took. Sylvania Township taxes you for working there at about 1.5%; Sylvania then charges its own about 1.5% and credits part of the first against it. Whether anything is left over depends on how generous that credit is.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Nothing extra. The tax is redirected rather than increased, so this particular crossing costs you no more than working in Sylvania would.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 830 workers. That affects how representative it is, not whether the tax arithmetic applies — the rules are the same on a quiet road as a busy one.
Both towns charge the same — does the boundary matter at all then?
Not to your total. Sylvania and Sylvania Township both levy about 1.5%, so the amount is settled either way — what the boundary decides is which authority receives it, and that is an accounting question rather than a cost to you.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Sylvania Township on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Sylvania on residence at about 1.5%. The residence municipality grants a credit for tax paid to the work municipality, commonly capped as a share of income. Net liability is the residence tax less that credit, floored at zero, plus the work tax.
Why is the marginal cost of this crossing zero?
Marginal liability from working outside the residence jurisdiction is zero on this route. The crossing alters the distribution of revenue between jurisdictions but not the employee's total. ⚠️ This is route-specific and does not generalise to other pairs in the same dataset.
What is the measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 830 workers per Census LODES, above the publication floor but below the dataset's upper quartile. Liability is determined by jurisdictional rates and residence rules alone; commuter volume has no bearing on it and is reported only as context.
What is the effect of identical rates either side of the boundary?
Both jurisdictions levy about 1.5%, so the governing rate is identical regardless of which rule allocates it. The boundary affects revenue attribution between authorities, not employee liability.